The following morning several things happened all at once. Sir Clive cancelled the breakfast ritual in favour of an early visit to the Lab. Eve took out one of the horses for an early gallop while Franco loaded the car with their bags, and Walther decided to take a breath of fresh air. He stood on the deck of his boat sipping a morning coffee. Tsuba was due back soon, he had left Richard with Susan and returned to the old woman and the bus alone, saying cryptically as usual,
“A man will not become wise if he accepts everything without question.” Richard took a load of no notice and continued to hug his wife.
Walther had given up his sleeping cabin for them, very little had been said the previous evening but they had all agreed with Richard's suggestion that they carry out the attack the next morning as he and Tsuba had already planned.